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13 Demon Street: The Girl In The Glacier

13 Demon StreetThe fifth episode of the syndicated horror anthology series 13 Demon Street airs on stations across the U.S. Hosted by Lon Chaney Jr. (The Wolf Man), and created (and frequently written and directed) by Curt Siodmak (The Wolf Man, The Invisible Man Returns), the series was filmed in Sweden with a motley mixture of American, British, and Swedish actors, with mostly Swedish talent behind the scenes.

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Twilight Zone: Time Enough At Last

Twilight ZoneCBS airs the eighth episode of Rod Serling’s anthology series The Twilight Zone. Burgess Meredith (Batman, Rocky) stars in a script written by Serling, adapted from a short story by Lynn Venable. This episode will later be considered, by both fans of the show and critics of television and drama in general, to be one of The Twilight Zone’s all-time classic episodes.

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Doctor Who: Day Of Armageddon

Doctor WhoThe 92nd episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part two of the mammoth 12-part story now collectively known as The Daleks’ Master Plan. Short-lived TARDIS traveler Katarina becomes the first companion in the history of Doctor Who to die, and future series star Nicholas “The Brigadier” Courtney appears as Bret Vyon. This episode is one of only three parts of this story not missing from the BBC’s archives.

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Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin, Part 4

Doctor WhoThe 439th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. For the first time in the series’ history, the Doctor is seen to be traveling without a companion, and this story marks his second visit to the Time Lords’ planet Gallifrey since the beginning of the series. Much of the Time Lord mythology is derived from this story. Peter Pratt guest stars as the Master.

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Beasts: The Dummy

BeastsITV broadcasts the sixth and final episode of horror anthology Beasts, created and written by Nigel Kneale (Quatermass). Bernard Horsfall (The Changes), Clive Swift (Excalibur, Keeping Up Appearances, Doctor Who), and Michael Sheard (The Empire Strikes Back, Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade) star.

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Video Games

Ladybug

LadybugArcade game maker Universal presents its entry in the industry-wide rush to get “a game like Pac-Man” into locations everywhere, the maze chase Ladybug. This is the first game from Universal to utilize the unique “spell EXTRA” method of awarding players extra “lives”, which practically becomes a Universal trademark in later games.

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Atari sues Imagic over Demon Attack

Demon Attack by ImagicWith exclusive rights to sell a home version of the cult arcade hit Phoenix under its belt, Atari sues third-party software house Imagic over its space shooter game Demon Attack, which is somewhat similar to Phoenix – too similar for Atari’s tastes. The two companies settle out of court the following January, with Imagic agreeing to omit the “mothership” level from the version of Demon Attack sold for the Atari 2600; the mothership appears in nearly every other edition of the game for other consoles and computers.

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Computers

Windows

Windows 1.0Microsoft introduces a graphical user interface for the IBM PC compatible computers, Windows 1.0. Essentially a GUI shell for Microsoft’s MS-DOS operating system, Windows arrives over two years after it was initially announced in 1983. To avoid legal entanglements with Apple (which has already launched a more visually-pleasing user interface with its Macintosh computers), Microsoft deliberately omits such now common features as overlapping or resizeable windows. Due to the amount of RAM in most users’ PCs, Windows’ multitasking ability is extremely limited.

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Freddy’s Nightmares: Bloodlines

Freddy's NightmaresThe 30th episode of the horror anthology series Freddy’s Nightmares is broadcast in syndication in North America, hosted by Robert Englund in character as Freddy Krueger. Marc Alaimo (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest stars.

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Warner Brothers announces new network

PTENAfter two years of running the numbers and making alliances with foreign investors, Warner Brothers announces that it will launch its own television network, the Prime Time Entertainment Network, as a joint venture with Chris-Craft Industries’ group of television stations. Modeled after the recently premiered Fox Network, PTEN will begin with one night a week of programming, gradually increasing to two or more. With Fox still only broadcasting two nights a week, ironically, most TV stations that sign up as early adopters of PTEN are Fox affiliates. The network is expected to sign on in late 1992 or early 1993, and will become the home to the science fiction series Babylon 5.

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Earth 2: Life Lessons

Earth 2NBC airs the third episode of the science fiction series Earth 2, starring Debrah Farentino, Clancy Brown, and Antonio Sabato Jr. Tim Curry (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) guest stars.

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